because that's where our hardy said we belong to mother earth. we're doing our own mother. we belong to watch for me. ah, opec plus member states reportedly mol further oil production cuts. that says, russia says it will export to those countries which observe the use news price caps . in this week's top stories, the u commission chief deletes oppose claiming a 100000 ukranian officials. i've been killed in the war. the figure is 10 times higher than the one released by ukrainian officials in august part he gets exclusive access to training based belonging to russia's private military company. wagner's a key fighting force in the battle for the don baths and south africa. president

faces growing corruption allegations with the national parliament to consider whether to begin an impeachment process against camp. ah, good morning for martine or national studios in moscow on payroll, isabel, and this is the weekly with the, our end, the weeks top news stories from around the globe. welcome to the program. hungry has a q c, e u, of harming its own economy with the recently agreed price cap on russian oil. that's as budapest itself has remain exempt from the oil embargo during the negotiations on the oil cap, we thought a lot for hungarian interest. and in the end we succeeded, hungary was exempted from the application of the oil cap. once again, we have managed to protect the security of our country's energy supply. that reaction came as the e u. g 7 states and australia confirm bare intention to introduce

a $60.00 per barrel price cap on russian oil. russia, however, has repeatedly stated it won't supply crude at prices below market value. the price cap will be activated on monday in parallel with the use embargo on seaborne brushing oil. the 1st revision of the new cap is planned for mid january and will need a unanimous vote to be approved. a new member states have said they believe the measure will help them inflation and stabilize oil prices. europe claims the new measure will help stop moscow's options in ukraine by hitting the russian budget. but keith has criticized the move, demanding the price, tap be cut in half. meanwhile, moscow has strongly condemned the move and will attend the opec plus meeting on sunday to discuss the next steps for the world's oil producers. our team contributor rachel mars then picks up the story. so the ball is totally in the

court of opec, plus oil producing countries now led by russia and saudi arabia, as they meet this weekend to discuss how to handle the use russian oil band and g 7 price cap set for implementation on monday, december 5th. the e, you took a typically ideological position with its price cap and van and must now pretty much be holding its breath and wondering what russia and opec plus are going to do in response. that's not exactly a position of strength and control the blocks and was tinkering has already created energy price and supply crisis to the point of d industrialization. because europe is in a reality, dependent on the fuel that it keeps trying to sanction ban price cap, offer virtue, signaling purposes for ukraine. european leaders keep blaming russian president vladimir putin for their own choices. you cannot count on russia. it is deliberately and cutting the gas flows to the european union,

thus no more honoring any kind of its pipeline contract. we are facing an extraordinary situation. not only because russia is an unreliable supplier, as we have witnessed over the last days, weeks, months. but also because rushes actively manipulating the gas market. look, if russia was really withholding energy from the e. u, as european officials constantly claim. then why has the block in quietly and massively able to import russian liquefied natural gas since january, to the point where russia is still the blocks 3rd largest supplier, they're paying 5 times more for it compared to last year. so about another, $13000000000.00 more. but european officials reserve accusations of price gouging for the used top l n g supplier. now the u. s. the fact is,

if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the u. s. because they are selling morega in at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons, despite all the railing against russia for being stingy with energy for europe. well, it turns out that almost half of all diesel that was ultimately supplied to europe was russian making it the blocks largest diesel supplier by a longshot. so wants to bet that despite the upcoming ban on russian diesel, that the e u has set for february. well, they might find a way to just keep importing it, speaking of which it turns out that the share of undetermined or undisclosed buyers of russian crude has spite considerably according to tanker tracking data. wonder who that might be. experts have also pointed out that even in the run up to next week's

e u ban on russian oil and the g 7 and you price cap. europe has none. the less been the talk buyer of all russian fossil fuels. russian hill and g has to continue to flow. we need that on the global ellen g balance. it's already tight enough as it is. i think most european countries are indeed happy to turn a blind eye on this. so you might be wondering how much of a loss in revenues has russia actually taken since the use sanctions? well, a 10 percent increase in revenue is compared to 2021. that's according to the russian prime minister, the hood jet, as logic revenues for january to september, higher than expected. they increased 10 percent compared to the same period last year of approach 20 trillion roubles. probably. so apparently, all the e u really seems to have done with its anti russian energy sanctions for ukraine, is find a way to impose a virtue signaling tax on themselves for their own energy supply. yet another

stunning achievement for the big brain bureaucrats in brussels. new details are emerging in the hunter biden laptop scandal, twitters new owner. ellen musk has confirmed claims that the platforms previous management went out of their way to sensor controversial stories concerning the u. s. president, son, he allegations were brought to light by a prominent american journalist. twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posty warnings that it may be unsafe. they even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases. for example, child pornography, ellen masking knows how to make a headline and he is already referring to this as the twitter files. now this is supposed to be a line giving the public a look into the inside decisions that were made within twitter, especially over the last few years when it comes to some of their more

controversial decisions regarding content, moderation. and what we're finding is that they were taking these tools that were used to target spam or violent content. and they were increasingly using them for political purposes based on political figures, we're reaching out making certain demands and twitter was going right along with it . now we have a very lengthy recap of these files that was made by independent journalists, matt t i. e b. here's a portion of what he had to say. some of the 1st tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters. slowly over time, twitter staffing executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well. first, a little, then more often than constantly by 2020 requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. one executive would write to another more to review from the bite and team, the reply would come back handled. now this all came to a head on october 4th of 2021. of course twitter moved not just to sensor the

release of the new york post story on hunter biden's abandoned laptop, but to actually block links to that story from being shared. whether it be posted on twitter or even indirect messages. so there have been a lot of questions as to what led up to that decision who made it, and of course, who exactly influenced it. now what we did learn from these files was that that decision was made at the highest levels of the company. however, it appears that then c, e o jack dorsey was not to directly involved. here's what was said on that. the decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of c, e o. jack dorsey with former head of legal policy and trust virginia, again playing a key role. an amazing so plot of the twitter hunter biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of c. e o jack dorsey and how long it took for the situation to get on. as one ex employee put it even after dorsey jumped in. now

there are also a number of cases where the bite and team did reach out directly, not just about certain accounts, but also about certain tweets that they wanted taken down. and the biggest take away from this isn't just that the bite and team was reaching out is that the employees at twitter who were responding weren't giving them any pushback. and they were responding with terms like, handled to just go along with what was being requested of them without questioning why these were top government officials and figures and political figures who were reaching out and asking for content to be censored. what's notable is some of the reaction that we saw from employees within twitter that's mentioned in these files . you had employees going back and forth and really voicing their frustration, saying they felt like these decisions were just being freelance when it came to this very serious content moderation that was happening. and speaking critically of what twitter was doing and of the precedent that was being set by it when it comes to those reactions. again, we're just really starting to see that pushback. but this is a bombshell story about what twitter was doing behind the scenes now being laid out

by it's brand new c up. this tease it up almost perfectly for those republicans coming in to power, who have already been concerned about the moderation that they've seen. of course, we have to remember twitter previously took down the account of the sitting president donald trump. so you have republicans coming in with a vengeance here wanting to know why those decisions were made, and also wanting to make a name for themselves. and it comes to their response to this and take a listen to some of the reaction that we've heard from them. so far. we're learning in real time how twitter colluded to silence the truth about hunter biden's laptop just days before the 2020 presidential election in 32 days. the new house republican majority will get answers for the american people in the accountability they deserve. says him that this is just getting started. he won mosque is already promising, and at the so 2 of the twitter files, so we'll likely be right back here talking about this as those releases continue. that was our tease rachel blevins, who brought us

a story. we also talk to legal and media analysts line all who said that despite all the hype over the story, things are unlikely to change as the democrats are too powerful. well, i think it will now under and eli and musk administration. i've kind of tell you something. this is almost like the 1986. her aldo al capone's vault episode. they opened it up, and nothing was there. we knew all this. is there anybody in the world who said i didn't know that? you mean to tell me that that twitter is actually shadow banning and eliminating certain voices based upon merely and purely political reason. i'm shot, we knew this. there will be a lot of filing of arm is they'll be hearings. you know, how many times all of the heads of silicon valley and big tech were marched into congress zuckerberg and jack dorsey v as zoom and jim cook from apple

and they'd point their fingers and they threaten. this is the, this is the challenge with, this is the point. section $232.00 are uploaded of the communications decency act. this is what grants these people, immunity, these corporations. if you take that away from them, it all fold, but they never talk about this. so what you see is a lot of posturing, a lot of tweeting a lot of news programs where various voice official republicans will, will lead the charge and what happens eventually nothing. i hope somebody can be done. i hope we don't get bored with that because sometimes that we have a 3 day attention span. we have attention span of a gnat, and there are also cases. let me also remind you, huge cases would china with s b f with a complete and total that? does this crypto collapse? when you focus on one thing, the question you're going to ask is,

what are you not paying attention to elsewhere, that also scares. so i cross my fingers, i hope, but i have absolutely no filling of confidence that anything will ever come of this because it never does. while the knockout stage of the world cup has just begun, one of the favorites, germany is on its way home from the tar after exiting and the tournaments group stage in a disappointing performance. aside from their poor display, german players attracted attention by covering their mouths during a team photo to show they'd been silenced in their protests against the tare homosexuality laws. german interior minister nancy phaser was also critical of guitars, human rights abuses. guests on could tarry television were pictured waving the german team. good bye and mocking their protests. although ruth

had tori fans also displayed pictures of former germany squad. claire miss suit us . those who quit the national team after facing racists abuse 1st turkish roots and they weren't the only ones disappointed with the german teams approach to the tournament. back in berlin, german fans are upset. their player seemed to pay more attention to politics than their own game. but definitely this would of course, distract the team. this is a very probable reason. of course, it's a lot of stress. they must have been pressured from above. come, come at us. won't foresee. yes. this is the likely version. to be honest. all these discussions about the arm band are exclusively our domestic whims. talk to people from other countries who are participating in the world's cup. they're only thinking about football guns. we only managed to turn this into a political discussion. political moment. we spoke ticket tare political economy

specialists. dr. colleague al cater with thanks. germany has no right to lecture guitar and push its own agenda. i think there was nothing to possession to looks at us on human rights or on moral values because they basically, they don't have it on this allegations are mostly motivated by the racism supremacy and a cultural economic and political exploitation. and the army was in this to exploit the country and young was english for other different purposes, whither i'm worth it. i marsey or by racism or by supremacy or whatever, or by other political, or economic or objective or to impose your culture on other nation and discrimination is implemented amongst even their own citizen based on ethnicity, a descendant to origin, race and background. a, you know, i'm dead, these allegations are, by the way against so father is losing credibility now aren't there is being

counter productive and attracting more attention and more people to the top menu. and they are discovering the contrary to these accusations. so it's actually serving us when in the mean time, germany is that to receive new supplies of good tarry liquefied natural gas after tuesday, ales and purchase agreements were signed covering at least a 15 year period. this old woman to sco several of them on the 1st of long term energy supply. going to jim we're the supply period extends for at least 15 years. this continues to contributing to germany's long term energy secured. they also represent a combination of difference between the 2 thrust the quote from scott and june confidence over many years to provide provided with an energy supply solutions to customers across the globe. and to the 2 gentlemen and uses the deal,

the 1st of its kind for europe will provide germany with 2000000 tons of l. n. g annually. and american subsidiary company is also part of the deal and will be responsible for delivery of the fuel. the german chancellor has welcomed the agreement as berlin has been scrambling to replace imports from russia. dr. colleen, i'll cut her again, says germany needs guitar, but doha has equally important partners to do business with. so not a little this country will strike a deal because jeremy is in need of energy and need to diversify its sources of energy and kind of provide a reliable and sustainable source of energy. and in the meantime, i was also to secure a long term contract in order to generate income today isn't by it's economy. i think that the company will sign a t t in the future. but this sort of not sure this will not solve the short term

issue and edgy cars in and get a money order. you're just attempting to sign a deal with i'm jeremy is in meet sooner or later. you know, they are in need. i know you cannot depend on when the city i think it's the mature enough that has been signed, longer term would say with asia with of jeremy is 15 years, mostly contracted with over 20 to 22 decades. and even over the non got recently with china 27 years. so i'm not surprised. rush and forces had given r t an exclusive demonstration on how it's tornado rocket launcher is changing the game on the front lines. ah. in less than 2 minutes, the advanced piece of weaponry can identify a target,

transmit the coordinates, an open fire. it's being used to fight back against ukrainian attacks, such as fridays and don, yes, which left at least 5 people dead and a dozen more wounded. the don bass frontline is seeing the heaviest fighting, particularly near the city of already almost russian forces have ramped up their offensive in the area this week. securing important footholds. this comes as the ukrainian military suffers heavy casualties. a story covered even by western mainstream outlets with the new york times reporting and unending stream of ukrainian casualties at local hospitals. just this week, almost 250 wounded soldiers were reportedly admitted in one day. this comes amid a rift between kevin brussels over the ukrainian armies death toll. after each chief ursula font there lay and claimed ukraine had lost $100000.00 officers. the

staggering figure was later dismissed by cab, whose officials insisted this is classified information. it is estimated that more than 20000 civilians and more than 100000 ukrainian military officers have been killed so far. as he heard there, the e cheese mentioned only officers as casualties, which means regular soldiers, territorial defense units, and mercenaries are not included in the overall deaths will figure. however, the video which was posted on twitter, was edited several minutes later with the part about casualties removed and on the e. u commissions official website. the tax of the statement now has those parts edited out. and eve spokesperson later claimed the death toll figure was an accurate adding. it was obtained from unnamed external sources. however, she didn't provide any explanation on how this information ended up in funder lay and speech author more. correspondent, thomas roper, told us such

a huge figure. if true, would be catastrophic for kids. it disturbs there in the western and ukrainian narrative of the ukraine winning the war. it's interesting, i have found an announcement from the speaker of the commission who said that the figures were just incorrect. they were an estimation. and who are not very correct and so they deleted it, and they just used this figure to us show the cruelty of russia. but then i have a question. does that mean that the you commission is officially lying all the time of their talking to ukraine? so we have 2 possibilities, either the have $100000.00 soldiers dead, or you commission just officially said they are lying with gotten ukraine while i was there several times. and i think the estimation of 100000 is quite correct. the problem is you have to see if it's 100000 really dead. you cried in soldiers. i think we have an additional 200000 rounded soldiers, which means altogether losses of something that if we have a 1000,

this is the number of ukrainian army before the russian to venture. this will be a catastrophe. it means that you create your cradles just blotting out. in this and verified video, you can see an aerial view from the outskirts of audio, most apparently heavily damaged by the ongoing fighting. the russian private military company wagner has been one of russia's leading, fighting forces. there the groups reasons drives have paved the way for a possible offensive, as they took a major foothold in the area r t dot exclusive access to a wagner training cap and spoke with some of the soldiers owning their skills. their wagner group and private military company. this is one of the most secretive organizations in russia. who are the soldiers, howard the train. we are the 1st film could to get access to their main training based in southern russia. now we'll show it to you a

ah mm hm. tier mazda. yeah. got got that letter. i know such a person. oh, sure. mm hm. oh, so i was saying, i did. well, not somebody going, is it a broadsoft? so our training ground here wants to stay in combat exercises are carried out according to a method. it's simple to complex off at 1st, our employees begin with solar training and then they end up as a well coordinated team space. obviously, we individually train specialists for certain weapons, hilton mortars, and all kinds of artillery, crisp. again. we also train snipers or fighters come to us from all regions of russia. examples they also come from abroad. what i see,

all our instructors have combat experience. each instructor has had more than one combat to work with them because the instructor yet have not come when you're okay . but the focus, but the complex it'll be as a full medical training is as has of matches to pappa. so now thorough stayed on the battlefields. so lots of the main emphasis is on what sam please will walk with directly during the performance. well, they service and combat mission. this is thought to locate more than means i used to stop bleeding, torn the kids, hemostatic substances, make sure to tell employee about all stages of conducting and of occasions when he come get us government above stiff up eloquence with a lot of people that are there any well, i trained encumbered some boat, sir to the army, and i came to wagner to further my education is military affairs in it. is there

any philosophy? wagner group are filled to philosophies versus interests. we have one common goal to defend our motherland. ah, a recent prob reveals the south african president sterile rama fossa may have broken anti corruption laws. this is in the wake of a multi $1000000.00 money laundering scandal, and an independent panel accusing him of similar crimes. according to the accusations, the president aided and covering up a $4000000.00 theft from his farm back in 2020 some 580000 of which was subsequently found beneath his sofa cushions. the south african leader has denied all the allegations and insists he earned the money legally. while confirming a robbery took place, he said the amount stolen was much smaller than alleged. we spoke to south african locals who have mixed reactions to the story. who got

a lot of tricks. which hutch with reaching every month, my friend, you know. so the question is thought to, what is he done? they don't get the tricks. you put the money in bees brought, you know his places. so why come from deadman does the question over? i'm not personally thing that a pristine must go. i just one day our politics to over think what happened if there's something that is happening in our government, it needs to be looked at truly even over the management to get. i'm saying not only the president, how do keep this such money under the carpet and then you expect people not to keep that mind me. oh, do the cub with rama was a she, she just continued to be a president, so lovely because there's no allocate the dis, disney that, that, that, that, that, that, that report is not. it's not a final report. what doesn't the say they said maybe if you just that person,

if you're such a person, just say you are some, the said no, i'm telling the president because of this and business. so it does know that that, that, that, that there's no judgement ramirez, his case has divided south african society with some demanding his resignation. while others claim there are more pressing problems for the country to deal with. i think president and sam opposite is wiped many, many significant accused a consumer being i think syrup with a spar much risk and, and, and then jacob's humor. i mean, i mean, i mean, he's the 1st president of such a huge amount of money are found in his, in his place, and we sort of can meet it being quiet about it. he did to take a jealous, but he was silly as of africa to expose that and to start making noise about this. and i think maybe in media is law. and i think so, i'm a precise as, as, as, as, as now, find himself in a costume to situation. i think he's not which out to be called to, to, to,

to resign. but i think i did it sort of con con, allowed themselves to be late by such a president to, has been found on numerous times to on the wrong side of the law. i'm not really sure. and i don't think that changes in anything. i think of against real audi, doubled electricity about water and sanitation about the education of their children about their unemployment. and those are material things that democracy. she's actually at the moment. we have been for almost 12 years, consumed way the battles of the as and each time it involves the president and bat, i think issued what he asked as of that a test to do he b, e discretions over president of the african national congress that resume in the 1st instance, and that we praise the grandma post at the moment, and that is what is consuming us a we from the real things that have to get in that through our own politician quality and unemployment. and we have lost a lot of time and energy,

all these things. and those were the sour and the weights top news stories from around the globe for up to the minute news updates, head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on rumble. odyssey and gab, thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again at the top of the hour. ah ah ah ah, a ra, a .